About the Authors

Rodrigo A. Fuentealba

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo A. Fuentealba, Qiang Liu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Qiang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo A. Fuentealba, Qiang Liu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Juan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Takahisa Kanekiyo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Xiaoyan Hu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jin-Moo Lee

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Mary Jo LaDu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Guojun Bu

bu@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAF QL JZ TK XH JML MJL GB. Performed the experiments: RAF QL JZ TK. Analyzed the data: RAF QL JZ TK XH JML MJL GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAF QL JZ TK XH JML MJL GB. Wrote the paper: RAF GB.